Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boba Fett: Crossfire

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The result of the debate was delete since no non-copyvio version was forthcoming. --Angr (t·c) 21:32, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boba Fett: Crossfire

At present, looks like info taken straight off Amazon.com or a similar source. Basically, title, author, ISBN and a copyvio of the blurb. No importance in current form. Harro5 08:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep if rewritten so it's no longer a copyvio. Plenty of series have individual book articles (see James Bond). I think being a Star Wars novel is notable enough. But the copyvio has to go. 23skidoo 13:30, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete This is a 133-page, 3.4oz. book not even a proper work of fan fiction. These books (from Scholastic) are hawked round schools as fundraisers. Their literary content is typically low to negligible (my kids have seevral in the same series). James Bond it ain't. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 16:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Literary content and notability are not the same thing. "I hate them for being terrible" is not a valid reason for deletion. The Boba Fett books are an important part of Star Wars canon. However, the article has no original content, so delete unless fixed. -LtNOWIS 17:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I dispute that they are important, they are not "proper" fan fiction (as per the post-Asimov Robot and Foundation-based books), they are small pamphlets of not many pages with no real story. That's my experience of others in the same series, anyway. There are plenty of significant crap books (I hate the Brontës as well but would vote keep on them without hesitation), and probably lots of excellent but insignificant ones. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 19:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
    • First of all, they are not fan fiction. They are legitimate parts of the official Star Wars Expanded Universe. In fact, one book was explicitly referenced in the landmark New Essential Chronology. Out of the 7 Star Wars young adult series, this is probably the third most notable, and the others do have individual book articles. Jedi Apprentice even has a category! They Fett books aren't very long, so a single article could probably cover all six books, but they do deserve inclusion. -LtNOWIS 22:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete unless rewritten. Page count isn't everything. There's enough famous books of around 100 pages and being low on page count doesn't make them any less notable. Books don't need to be literary either as long as enough people read and enjoy them. This is official canon and thus a valid topic. - Mgm|^(talk) 00:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

• Yes, the book should be rewritten. / Ezeu 03:27, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and let Wikivolution take it's course: if it is still copyvio at the end of the AfD, speedy delete it. Otherwise, seems to be a valid book stub, no need to delete. Turnstep 15:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep so long as this article is not violating any copyrights. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Send to copyvio team. Stifle 23:34, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.